Quiz Masters

The girls love to ask questions--all of the time. It's pretty cute. Betsy is also a "corrector beptor," which is what my sisters and I call someone who corrects people all of the time. Don't ask where beptor came from. They also say super cute stuff all of the time.

Here are some gems:

Sadie was asking me a bunch of questions so I asked, "Why are you asking me so many questions?" She said, "Because I'm just a yittle kid."

The girls made a craft after camp and sadie said she wanted to bring it to dinner at Jama's because she made it for Jama. Betsy looked concerned then looked at me and I looked at them not knowing quite what to say and Betsy put her hand on Sadie's arm and said, "Jama is in heaven." Sadie said, "But this is for Jama and I want to bring it." So she brought it and asked me to keep in my purse. Even though Sadie was only 15 months when Jama passed away she still remembers her! :)

Betsy--"Which is further away--heaven or Mars?" I had never thought about that as a child. I told her I thought heaven was further away. B got upset and said, "But I'm not ready to go to heaven!!!" I told her that it wouldn't be for a long, long time. B said, "But, Mommy, you keep saying I am growing up so fast!" The other day I said, "Oh, my back is stiff. I am getting old." Betsy said, "What, Mommy? Getting old??? You know what that means!" My little girl is so afraid of death.

Betsy said, "When I grow up I want to be a mommy and a teacher." Sadie said, "I want to be a mommy and I want to drive." Literally every time we get in the car Sadie asks me if she can drive then laughs hysterically then asks if when she is a mommy she can drive. I always her that she can. Betsy told Sadie that when she becomes a mommy she has to move out and live in her house with her own family. Sadie looked terrified and said she never wanted us to not live together. She said, "Mommy, Daddy, Betsy, and Sadie in the house together all the time."

B asked me how old Jesus was. I had to think, because I know He died, then rose again so I can't tell her that He died. I changed the subject.

Betsy cried the other day while she was drawing because she couldn't get the color of the sunset in her drawing quite right. She is very critical of herself and her artwork. She wants everything to be perfect. Wonder where she gets that from--my motto is, after all, everything must be perfect. It's sort of a joke, but sort of not. I told her that things don't always have to be perfect, but she told me it's just so much better when they are. She is me. It.is.scary. She loves to sing and ham it up and make up rhymes.

My girls do and say wonderful things every day. I just have to remember them all!!!

Summer

Our summer is going well so far. Summer is such a hodge podge of camps and sitters and favors from family. After school ended the girls had a horrible virus that caused them to have a bunch of sores in their mouth. It was awful--they couldn't eat or talk and just cried. On top of that I was sick with a throat/cough thing. It was beyond rough.

The girls are loving camp. Betsy has gone on bunches of field trips and there are so many fabulous activities. Sadie is happy swimming in the baby pools and doing art projects.

Sadie isn't potty trained. Yes, she is 3. My girls are tough to potty train. We are working so hard. We almost have #1 down, but #2 on the other hand... Sadie also doesn't like to potty at school and she has been holding it all day, but she did pee pee at Jama's last night and at school yesterday (while I was there) so we are making progress. She has to be potty trained to start Nursery in two months. I am so anxious about it. Sadie gets very upset when she has an accident. I hope we get through this soon.

Toledo Bend

Earlier this month we spent the weekend in Toledo Bend with Momma Lady, Grandpa, the Nichols family, Maggie, and Phil. We stayed in a cabin with an awesome porch full of rocking chairs. The cabin overlooked a pond where everyone fished--B even caught two fish! We swam, roasted marshmallows, ate homemade ice cream, and had an absolute blast. The kids had so much fun playing together and making up songs and dances. It was a very memorable weekend.

Photo Book--Disney World 2011

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Memorial Day

On Memorial Day we had a family get together with Gumbo, Marme, Tim, Bee, the Carvilles, and the Ascanis. My husband prepared fancy burgers and everyone brought delicious things. The little girls swam in our baby pool and played on the see-saw. It was a super great day!

In the first photo B is holding a book that Katie made for her. It is so sweet and full of precious pics of B with even more precious captions. She made it because recently Betsy told Peter and I that she is not pretty and that she knows it because she looks in the mirror and looks at pictures of herself. I was floored. Why on earth would she think that? I told her that she is very pretty and smart and sweet. She mentioned it again a couple more times so Katie made her the book. She honestly hasn't mentioned not being pretty since then. I didn't think that this type of stuff would start this early. Ugh.

Friday Night

Watching 'The Sound of Music' with my girls after dinner at Rum House and dessert at Sucre. Perfect Friday night.

Swim Club

Last year the girls took swimming lessons. It was pretty much a disaster. This summer Gumbo treated the girls to lessons at Love Swimming. Everyone says that Love is the best place to learn to swim. My girls hate even being splashed in the tub, so we need the best. We decided not to call it swimming lessons, because Betsy still talks about how much she hated swimming lessons at the JCC last summer. So I decided to call it Swim Club. Lawson is taking lessons with them, which they love. The first class went surprisingly well. At first the girls were a bit whiny and apprehensive, but they eventually loved it. At the end of class Betsy said, "Do they teach swimming lessons here?" I said, "Uh, I don't know..." They have talked about swim club nonstop and today was Class #2. Sadie was upset at first, but she ended up having fun. Here's to Swim Club!!!

Slumber Party

Lawson spent the night for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Calli watched all 4 girls while Attie, Katie, and I went to dinner and to see 'Bridesmaids' (HILARIOUS)with two of the Stoulig sisters and the boys ate steaks. They slept very well and in the morning I brought the little girls to Uncle Tommy's for checkups. Then we met up with Attie and Penny and did various errands and ate lunch. And Sadie pee peed on the potty at the restaurant. It was the first time!!! Things are going better and she is telling us when she has to go, but my poor girl suffers from stage fright and afraid to potty at camp. Oy.

Slumber party girls:

Party Time

We recently had a big time party weekend. We had 4 parties in one weekend. Fun times!

Our first party was at the Cool Zoo, which is super awesome. The girls were timid at first, but they ended up loving it.




After the party we went to Bayou Bogaloo with B's pal Stella and her momma, Jaime.




The Carvilles had us over for supper and the girls had a princess party and super fun bath!